At the dock was 66-year-old Kang KEK Leu (Kaing Guek Eav), which was the main torturer regime of Pol Pot.
Kang KEK Loew, a former mathematics teacher, headed the "death camps" - the prison of S21, or Tuong Sleng (under the name of Lyceum Capital, in a building which was fitted). Leu is accused of carrying out massacres and inhuman torture, in which he personally participated.
In the S21 prison were brutally tortured to 16 to 20 thousand people, including women and children who are considered enemies of the Khmer Rouge communist regime.
On the instructions of the CEC Kang Leu photographed prisoners: first, even when living in a prison, the second time - had their bodies to provide evidence of the destruction of enemies. Loew has introduced special days for the penalty, which destroyed some categories of prisoners: the first day of the enemies in the second - his wife's enemies in the third - their children.
The former chief of "death camps" formally charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the proceedings against him would indicate 18 prisoners escaped. In the event that it found guilty, faces life imprisonment Leu.
Kang KEK Leu during the preliminary investigation, pleaded guilty. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, he for 20 years hiding in the jungle under a false name Ping Hang (Hang Pin). He reportedly turned to Christianity and was baptized.
According to one of the priests attached Kang KEK Leu to Christianity, he fully repented of sins and made a turn at 180 degrees. " In the village of Leu built a church, and then worked as a volunteer in the American non-governmental organizations in assisting refugees.
Kang KEK Loew revealed British reporter Nick Dunlop (Nic Dunlop), who saw him in 1999 and learned. Former Khmer Rouge executioner by the emergence of a journalist as "God's will, and voluntarily surrendered to police. He held in custody 10 years.
In addition to Kang KEK Leu before extraordinary tribunal should be four more Khmer Rouge leaders: a former associate head of Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot Khieu Samphan (Khieu Samphan), former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary Kampuchea (Ieng Sary) and his wife Ieng Tirit (Ieng Thirith), as well as the chief ideologist Nuon Chea regime (Nuon Chea).
During the reign of the Khmer Rouge, which lasted from 17 April 1975 to 7 January 1979, killing of 1.7 million to three million people. As expected, the trial of Kang KEK Leu take three to four months.
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